[Basic] Is a quarterstaff obviously a weapon?

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's basically a tool that's usable as a weapon. You'll get attention if you carry it in an inappropriate situation, or in situations where all weapons are prohibited, but it doesn't look like only a weapon.

Yep, exactly

[Plane]

Originally Posted by tbone

I don't recall a single staff in LotR, other than those of wizards. Of whom there were five in all of creation...*

By the time of LOTR, staffphile Baggins probably pilfered them all with his invisible ring and hid them in his burrow.